Commencement 2001

Photos by Paul Martens
IU Bloomington Chancellor Ken Gros Louis (photo above, at podium) was an honorary degree recipient and delivered the commencement address as well at Bloomington’s commencement exercises May 5. At far left is Paul Eisenberg, university grand marshal, with other members of the platform committee, which included (left to right) honorary degree recipient Jack Gill; Kumble Subbaswamy, dean of the IU College of Arts and Sciences; and IU trustees Steve Ferguson, Cora Breckenridge, Steven Backer and Fred Eichhorn.

IU President Myles Brand (below) congratulates one of the 940 IU graduating seniors at IU South Bend’s commencement May 8.

The poet John Donne had it right about parting:

'Our beings therefore, which are one, Though we must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move, 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell others of our love.'

Mr. President, with great affection, I present to you the class of 2001."

Ken Gros Louis,
IU vice president for academic affairs and chancellor of the Bloomington campus, presented his last graduating class to the president.

After "some 38 years" in one capacity or another at IU, Gros Louis will retire on July 1, and with his last class of more than 6,000, set out into the "frontier," the adventurous unknown.

And, during May 2001 at Indiana University, 13,489 IU degrees were conferred in eight commencement ceremonies.